Corporate culture is not limited to just C-level employees, corporate culture belongs to every employee in the company. Encouraging participation and engagement by creating and disseminating a desired culture is the goal, there are multiple ways to achieve that goal. E-learning uses technology to give access to a curriculum of corporate community that everybody can engage in, at their own speed. E-learning is collaborative at all levels, whether it be a single student, teacher ratio, or a group classroom. Collaboration encourages engagement, engaged employees perform better, educated and engaged employees are a treasure.
The Extreme Importance of Engaged Employees
The science of maintaining engaged employees is serious business. E-learning makes it easy to engage employees at every level. The result of disengaged employees is lower productivity, a high quitting rate, and a poor corporate culture. E-learning offers many strategies to combat the disengaged employee while teaching them new and valuable skills. These dynamics are not just reserved for people under management, they apply to management and C-level employees too.
E-learning Strategies Designed to Engage Everybody
1. Be inclusive.
You do not want to alienate a group or department by not involving them in the e-learning exercises. When re-training a corporate culture from the top down, no one should be excluded. If one group of employees has to stand back and watch another group get preferential treatment, it is deadly for positive and engaged productivity. When re-structuring the corporate community, you need to retrain everyone in order for them to be engaged and committed to this shift in company dynamics.
2. Be Collaborative
When e-learning and social media are the tools used to structure and spread corporate culture, employees gain an instantaneous and verifiable platform for their progress, concerns, and suggestions. When employees are able to view the responses and reactions of other employees to the same issue, a whole new layer of understanding and engagement blossoms! Create e-learning courses designed to bring everyone together, regardless of position at the company to tackle a problem within the company. You might be surprised at how quickly a resolution is hammered out when everyone is treated like their input matters.
3. Openly Allow Feedback to all Aspects of the E-learning Process
Without feedback, an e-learning routine is just a shot in the dark. The feedback strategy is part and parcel of e-learning, and should be treated as such. Allow feedback from all employees on everything that has been taught, tested and discussed. When you value the feedback of a lower-level employee as much as you value the feedback from the owner of the company, you are making true progress. Feedback encourages an employee to get engaged and stay engaged.
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